'Archer' star H Jon Benjamin: 'Sterling Archer will never be happy'

Archer star H Jon Benjamin has claimed that his character will never find true happiness.

The comedian, who plays protagonist Sterling Archer in FX's animated series, pointed out that Archer's mother Malory (Jessica Walter) is partly to blame.

Benjamin said at a recent conference call: "I think, by nature, he's a troubled character, so I don't think he'll ever be happy.

"[However], if his mother died, I'm not sure he'd be happy but it would change everything for him and maybe he'd be happy. I just think that his mother creates a lot of problems."

Benjamin later spoke about the third season, commenting that there are "definitely moments of pure craziness".

"The show gets back to what it did in the second season, which is focus on all the characters who work for the spy agency and stuff like that," he said. "So he doesn't have any more like crazy flights of fancy, but they go to space.

"They get to go to space, but I think that was part of the mission, so it's not like he was just like, 'I'm going to go to space and take off'."